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THE ART OF LIVING LECTURES 

By 
EDWARD AMHERST OTT 



"SOUR GRAPES" 
or Heredity and Marriage. 

"WILL YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE?" 
or The Haunted House. 

"THE BALLOT OF THE DOLLARS" 
or The Ethics of Spending Money. 

"A FORTUNE FOR YOU" 
or The Story of a City. 

"TRADE STABILITY THROUGH 
UNIVERSAL EMPLOYMENT." 

Books of Edward Amherst Ott 

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Published by 

EDUCATIONAL EXTENSION SERVICE 

Byron, N. Y. 



HOT SHOTS 

In the War On Poverty 



Copyrighted 1916-1917 



BY 
EDWARD AMHERST OTT 



Published by 

EDUCATIONAL EXTENSION SERVICE 

Byron, N. Y. 



° 



Hot Shots By Ott 

INTRODUCTION 

It is probably not too optimistic to say that the world 
is Jiow sufficiently enlightened to correlate the Industrial and 
Social activities to the end of Universal welfare. 

Poverty, which is the opposite pole of Welfare, can be 
eliminated. There is little joy to an imaginary mind in the 
enjoyment of abundance, while other people are in want. The 
"HOT SHOTS" in the War of Poverty are offered as a stimu- 
lus to thought on the subject of Poverty. The Author realizes 
that each epigram could be developed into a chapter of a 
book. Editors who are running the HOT SHOTS in their 
daily papers, are elaborating them in the form of editorials, 
using the epigrams as texts. 

If the reader finds his own imagination stirred, and 
thinks of points omitted from the book, and develops ideas 
that are more constructive than the statements here made, 
then the SHOTS have accomplished what was intended. 

In any publication of social statistics the question of 
authority always arises. It is evident in a country growing 
as rapidly as ours, that statistical conclusions constantly 
change; what was a fact in 1900 or 1910 may not be a fact 
today. When not otherwise stated, the reader may know 
that the statistical statements I made were founded on the 
basis of the statistical reports of 1900. 

TO THE SERIOUS READER: If the reader wishes to 
enlist in the War on Poverty, he can help distribute copies 
of the HOT SHOTS. They are sold at nominal rates in 
quantities, so that business men and other public-spirited 
readers can present them to friends, with personal compli- 
ments. 

Correspondence concerning the wider distribution of the 
'"SHOTS" should be addressed to the publishers. 

EDWARD AMHERST OTT, 

Waukegan, Illinois. 



Published by 
EDUCATIONAL EXTENSION SERVICE 
Byron, N. Y. ^* 



0CI.A462252 



MAY -4 1917 



v 



Ott's Hot Shots. 



Produce more and waste less. 

V V V 

Smashing windows and destroying machin- 
ery will not make the world rich or happy. 

V V M 

Idle men do not make good buyers. Or- 
ganize your industries on a year round basis. 

v v v 

All foolish enterprises divert labor from 
useful fields. 

V V V 

The spender of money has a big responsi- 
bility. He can divert energy from the farm 
to the merry-go-round" 

V V V 

The horses on the brewery dray will soon 
be earning an honest living on some farm. 



OTT'S HOT SHOTS 



The earth belongs to all of us. We must 
learn how to use it without friction. 

v v v 

Be a social citizen* Do something that is 
necessary. 

V V V 

We have too much social machinery. Why 
not simplify organization. 

V V V 

The lumber in bulletin boards would make 
good tool sheds. 

y v v 

When you deposit your money in a bank 
you want safety, not granite columns: Why 
pay for both? 

VMM 

A rat eats sixty cents worth of grain a year. 
There are millions of them. Get busy. 

v v v 

The man who makes a good rat poison is 
no cheap reformer. 

V V V 

Social citizens understand what the War 
on Poverty means. Others indulge in charity. 



WAR ON POVERTY 5 



The demand for commodities would be 
steady if earnings did not fluctuate. Stabil- 
ity in the labor market is the need of the in- 
dustrial world. 

V V V 

If earnings were constant, consumption) 
manufacturing and transportation would be 
constant. Why not just keep going? 

v v v 

Is it good social economy to lay off men 
with families to support, without cutting the 
pay of a $100,000 a year corporation presi- 
dent? 

V V V 

Keep the wheels going: When men stop 
working, stores stop selling and factories stop 
producing. 

V V V 

You believe in individual effort? Go into 
a new country and. see what you can do alone. 
What can you make? 

v v v 

The drain digger makes the sanitary plumb- 
ing possible. Team work makes the world. 

V V V 

Teach us, O Lord, to be good financially. 



6 PIT'S HOT SHOTS 

A strike may bring increased pay for the 
social group, but adds to the world's want. 



All little reforms wait on the solution of 
the War on Poverty. 



Married men should be paid family support- 
ing wages. 

V V V 

It should never be necessary to hunt a job. 
Society as a whole should eliminate that 
waste of time. 

V V V 

We need a labor reservoir for surplus men. 
A perpetual source of supply and a perpet- 
ual market. 

V V V 

An industrial standing army would meet 
the need of surplus men. If made the engi- 
neering corps of the nation, it could be self- 
supporting. 



How would churches be designed if the 
Divine Carpenter sat on the building com- 
mittee? 



WAR ON POVERTY 



The printing press is a great social insti- 
tution: See the liquor signs. 

V V V 

Valparaiso University enrolls about five 
thousand students a year, and has no endow- 
ment. It is efficient, self-supporting. 

V V V 

"You can save money by buying your 
liquor at wholesale." Why not save all of it? 

V V V 

Support one good church in your commun- 
ity, and no more. 

v v v 

The money spent for diamonds in the 
United States in one year would pay the 
President's salary for thirteen hundred years. 

v v v 

Graduating a good farm boy into a poor 
lawyer is no economy. 

v v v 

Would Christ vote to build a three million 
dollar Cathedral in a city of slums? 



OTT'5 HOT SHOTS 



It is not missionary work to sacrifice for a 
church that is not needed. 

y y v 

When all the nations have ample armies 
and navies, there won't be money enough 
left to fight over. 

* y y y 

Maintain the community life of America; 
Let the big cities rear their own workers and 
pay for their education. 

y y y 

The small cities rear, educate, and then lose 
their young men. How long can they stand 
the drain? Ask New England 

y y y 

The soldier's uniform will be respected 
when the army is organized on an industrial 
basis: when it is a working army, not a stand- 
ing army. 

y y y 

Christianity and competition are not com- 
patible. 

v y y 

Inasmuch as ye have built cottages for the 
poor, ye have built temples for the Lord, 



WAR ON POVERTY 



You could love your neighbors if you were 
working together for mutual benefit. 

V V V 

You can't make a touchdown without 
team work. 

v v v 

There are too many stores in the world. 
Waiting for trade does not solve the world's 
poverty. 

v v v 

What is the heating, lighting, and fire in- 
surance cost of the stores that are not needed? 

V V V 

If stores stood in isolated squares, fire in- 
surance would be cheaper. 

v v v 

A straight street of stores is ugly, expen- 
sive, unnecessary. 

v v v 

There is plenty for all, but some take too 

much. 

v v v 

Duplication is the greatest social evil. 



io orrs HOT SHOTS 

When every man has enough money in- 
vested to live on, who will feed the horse? 
Let the investment hankers answer. 



So you made a fortune in real estate, did 
you brother? Where did it come from? 



Tolstoi asked Jane Addams who supported 
her while she helped the poor. 



If there were enough people employed 
helping the poor, we would all starve to- 
gether. 

V V V 

One hundred million people, all helping, 
could make this country into a park in one 
year. Why not try team work? 

y y y 

Will Christianity ever be applied to wages? 
y y y 

Do you pay for two telephones in your 
city? How do you like competition? 

y v v 

When you buy useful things, you encour- 
age useful production. 



WAR ON POVERTY u 

When you buy trash you set men to mak- 
ing more trash. 

V V V 

When a man takes a dollar he did not 
earn, someone earned a dollar he did not get. 

V V V 

"I have never seen the righteous forsaken, 
nor his seed begging bread." 

V V V 

How many churches is your community 
supporting? Are all of them necessary in 
the Christianizing process? 

v v v 

No enterprise can be called wicked because 

it is large. 

v v v 

Would a central heating plant, burning 
trash, garbage, and cheap coal, cut the cost of 
living in your community? 

v v v 

What is the cost of national advertising? 
Who pays for it? 

V V V 

The cost of crimes, prosecutions, deten- 
tions, etc., is over $600,000,000 a year in the 
United States. The courts and attorneys get 
a share of it. 



i2__ OTT'S hot shots 

The War on Poverty is in progress. The 
enemy is the waster, die loafer and the suc- 
cessful non-producer. The good soldier adds 
more to the national wealth than he takes. 



If each woman at a charity ball wears a 
new gown which she does not need, how 
much poverty does each ticket produce? 



If you hire twenty thousand farmers 9 sons 
to make automobiles at $5.00 a day, how 
much do you reduce the cost of farm pro- 
ducts? 

V V V 

There is no Christian reason why the Steel 
Trust Should not make all the steel for the 
United States. The question involved is one 
of profits, prices and wages. 



We need a social inventor to tell us how 
to run this country without so much wasted 
machinery. 

V V V 

Do you know what conventions cost? 
Think about it. 



WAR ON POVERTY 13 

Plant an apple tree in your back yard; eat 
an apple each day; they are cheaper than 
pills. 

V V V 

The bandit stole from the rich and gave to 
the poor. The brewer takes from the poor 
and keeps it all to get rich. 

v v v 

Inventors are our great emancipators. 

V V V 

Howe emancipated millions of white wo- 
men from the slavery of the hand needle. 
Where is his monument? 

V V V 

The poor will never be cared for as long as 
millions live by artificial activity. 

m y v 

A great university furnishes board and 
room for its thousands of students at a price 
of two to three dollars a week. The high 
cost of living goes down under efficiency 
buying. 

v v v 

Dont let the $ $ $ confuse you. Study 
the poverty question in terms of MEN and 
THINGS. 



£4 OTTS HOT SHOTS 

Produce, or you're a parasite and a cause 
of poverty. 

V V V 

Working hard for an unnecessary insti- 
tution does not make you a producer. 



Money is an irrigating stream. Diverting 
its wealth producing waters to play in private 
parks will impoverish the valley. 

V V V 

If you can't employ men by the year, don't 
try to be a business man. 

v v v 

May the Lord bless the managers of fac- 
tories who cut the cost of production while 
increasing the wages of labor. 

V V V 

Business institutions must be lifted above 
the hazard line; but the greatest institution 
is labor, and it must be kept above the haz- 
ard line of sickness and unemployment. 

y v v 

There are over a million stores in the 
United States. Less than sixty thousand post 
offices are required. What's the answer. 

v m v 

Who pays for all the bill boards? 



WAR ON POVERTY 15 



Who pays for all the beautiful catalogues 
that go into the waste-basket? 

V V ¥ 

We are all consumers. How many of us 
are real producers? 

v v v 

There are two kinds of parasites— persons 
and institutions. All persons working for 
unnecessary institutions become parasites. 

. v V V 

The wealth that comes from high prices 

or low wages can never be a blessing or a 

pride. 

v v v 

Show me what you are producing; I want 
to thank you for your social service. 

V V M 

A charty institution started three crippled 
beggars to selling fruit, papers and notions, 
in three separate stalls. Was this a solution 
in a city of many stores? 

V V V 

You pay your way freely, you never hag- 
gle, you plank down the money for your 
things. Now, what things do you plank down 
for your money? 

m v M 

The gambler wants something for nothing. 
He is a thief without the gun or the courage 
of a highwayman. 



16 OTT'S HOT SHOTS 

A philanthropist collected millions of un- 
earned increment on real estate, and gave 
them to a college. Who paid his board while 
he was living? 

v w v 

The causes of poverty are individual, bio- 
logical, and social. The preventives must 
correct all of these or fail of results. 



nature thousands of years to de- 
velop a forest, the lumber king "cashed it in" 
to society in one generation. Was that con- 
structive industry? 



To cure the disease of poverty one hundred 
million of Americans must learn to hate in- 
dividual and social waste. You can enlist now 

y v v 

Many strong well-trained minds are busy 
getting and taking care of money instead of 
producing the things we need and desire. 



The man who takes more than he gives is 
one of the causes of the world's misery. May 
he see the misery he creates. 

V V V 

Mr. Philanthropist: The way to give away 
money is to stop taking it. 



^ WAR ON POVERTY . 17 

When seventeen boys drive seventeen milk 
Wagons down one street, sixteen boys audi 
sixteen .horses .are taken from producing 
farms and the price of milk goes up. Dupli- 
cation is wicked in a land of hungry babies. 

v v v 

Mr. Advertiser: Your electric sign is a 
wonder, but if you would put the same num- 
ber of bulbs in homes and pay for the light of 
your customers they would draw you more 
trade and stop a great waste. Try it. 

V V V 

At what price should a Christian sell a 
typewriter that cost $17.00 at the factory. 

V V V 

The democratic way to distribute a fortune 
is the Henry Ford way. 

v v v 

There is no one cause of poverty. There 

are several ways to die. Even a rich man can 

die poor. A man may inherit wealth and 

achieve poverty, or his wife may automobile 

him to it. 

v m v 

Your son had better be a tramp than the 
president of an unnecessary bank. It would 
cost society less to feed him. 



ig . PIT'S HOT SHOTS 

The man who has the tuberculosis of spe- 
cial privileges cannot he expected to hustle 
for his living and be a self-respecting compet- 
itor in an open field. He is sick. Just re- 
member that. He is sick. Why not give him 
a rest cure at Leavenworth, Kan., or At- 
lanta, Georgia? 

V V M 

The middleman is a necessity, a useful 
unit in the division of labor. The middlemen 
are the wasters. 

M V V 

Many a prosperous man is a superfluity. 
You can drop him and his institution into the 
sea and miss him no more than you would a 
tramp. 

M V V 

If a high class piano can be manufactured 
for $85.00, how much should it cost in the 
open market? 

V V M 

One school superintendent is a necessity. 
Two would be a waste. One druggist in a 
community is a necessity. If there are two, 
one is superfluous. 

VMM 

Brother, do you suppose for a moment that 
Christ would sanction the religious architec- 
ture of today in a state that has no widows 9 
pensions? Do you? Well, guess again. 



WAR ON POVERTY 19 

Money is a vehicle of exchange. Dollars 
are freight cars to bring you what you want. 
You want things. Now, we pay more atten- 
tion to the cars than we do to the freight. 
Think of the cost of banking, accounting, 
bookkeeping. 

v v v 

Lord save me from Poverty, but let me 
suffer Poverty rather than cause the Poverty 
of another. 

V V V 

No man can pay for his necessities or lux- 
uries with money. He may pay liberally 
with money and still render no service. 

V V V 

The Middleman is a necessity, but Middle- 
men are wasteful duplicates. 

V V V 

In a church where the minister of the gos- 
pel is paid $15,000 a year, how much should 
the janitor receive? 

v m v 

When little is produced, there will be little 
to distribute. There is little unearned incre- 
ment in a dead town. 

V V V 

When 100,000 laborers strike, they in- 
crease the cost of living to all other laborers. 
The world is not to be made rich by stopping 
the wheels of industry. 



£0 OTTS HOT SHOTS 

Some people are born incompetent, cripples 
or imbeciles; the rest of us can take care of 
these and do. 

V V V 

The incompetent and paupers and imbeciles 
are housed, clothed and fed better than many 
a laboring man. 

V V V 

Some people are born competent, but live 
incompetent lives. It costs a lot to keep peo- 
ple who have high tastes and produce nothing. 

V V V 

Wheat and corn are not expensive. Break- 
fast foods are. You pay for the carton, the 
advertising and trade mark. 



Has Christianity an answer for the victim 
of high prices? 

v v v 

A doctor's advice is cheaper than six bot- 
tles of patent medicine for $5.00. 



Fresh air, exercise and good food are cheap- 
er than a room in a hospital. 

v y v 

It is estimated that the cost of sickness in 
the United States alone is $2,000,000,000 a 
year. Health helps to eliminate poverty. 



WAR ON POVERTY 21 

A good apple tree will bear fruit for fifty 
years; plant one in your back yard. 

V V V 

Utility is also beautiful; fruit trees are 
beautiful twice a year. 

V V V 

The other fellow wants to live too; give 
him a chance. 

V V V 

In a land of slums, how much space should 
a Christian use for a private park? 

V V V 

Dear Madam: The colors in your $2,500 
rug are beautiful, Your husband's clerks 
paid for it out of their low wages. 

v v v 

Don't thank your husband for that diamond 
necklace. Your husband's clerks wear black 
on six dollars a week. 

♦ v v v 

Dear Fellow: Your father left you sixty 
Million Dollars. Strut! You are a great man. 

V V V 

The moment you stop working you are one 
of the causes of poverty. Please remember; 
keep going. 

V V V 

The man who cannot set himself to work 
should not damn the man who gave him a 



22 OTTS HOT SHOTS 

You are "doing well?" Whom do you do? 

V V V 

We support one store for every ninety peo- 
ple. Can we afford it? 

V V V 

A millionaire may not be a sign of pros- 
perity, but a cause of poverty. 

V V V 

Is any city rich enough to let a valuable 
school building stand idle all summer? 

V V V 

Why use a $100,000 school building only 
six hours a day? Ask Gary, Indiana. 

v v y 

Is it economical to use church property 
only eight hours a week? 

V V M 

You cannot destroy White Slavery until all 
men of marriageable age have a home sup- 
porting income. 

v v v 

Every nation needs a reservoir of surplus 
and supply of labor. Why not try an indus- 
trial army organization? 

V V V 

Hating the rich will not overcome poverty. 
Think of getting plenty for all. 



WAR ON POVERTY 23 

Food is high and land is dear; fences occu- 
py a lot of land space. 

v v v 

When money changes hands nothing is 
lost. When men are idle days are lost. 

m v v 

Four gamblers pass money to each other all 
day. What is the economic loss? 

V V V 

Foolish labor is as wicked as idleness. 

v v V 

It required 365,000,000 days of labor to 
erect the pyramids. Egypt needed a modern 
captain of industry to direct her labors. 

V V V 

Intelligently directed ignorant men can 
build a palace; left alone they starve. 

V V V 

On next Sunday, think out a way to lessen 
the world's poverty. 

V V V 

Genius invented a reaper; the peasant 
dropped his sickle and sprang onto a spring 
seat. 

V V V 

Jim went to the city to work and Harry 
went back to the farm; they could have saved 
two railroad tickets. 



£4 orrs HOT SHOTS 

"Mr. Efficiency Engineer," bring that 
$50,000 a year president back from Paris and 
set him to work. 

V V V 

"Capital must be protected; it must be 
safe." How long must one dollar Jkeep on re- 
producing itself? Does Capital never die? 

V V V 

A man earned and invested some money. 
A fifth generation is still loafing on the in- 
come. Is investment immortal? 

V V V 

Pension every widowed mother according 
to her needs. 

y v v 

God give us men who can think solutions 
and save us from men who bring strife. 

V V V 

"Investment must be protected." Sure; 
charge the earnings up to the washerwoman. 

V V V 

Scientific salesmanship is the ability to sell 
three dollars' worth of books for sixty dollars. 
Ethics — ? 

V V V 

Rich men are ashamed of their wealth. 
They are ashamed to tell the amount even to 
the assesor. 



WAR ON POVERTY 25 

A woman debauched with vanity can keep 
any man poor. 

V V V 

Constantly changing styles keeps Jack on 
the tread mill. 

V V V 

Capitalizng woman's vanity isn't quite as 
dignified as reaping wheat. 

V V V 

Pray Congress to establish an Industrial 
Commission of Experts to supply employment 
for all idle men. 

v v v 

Mr. Merchant, your store is more beautiful 
than the homes of any of your customers. 
Do you sell fixtures or merchandise? 

v y v 

The moment you stop patronizing the 

shooting gallery, the proprietor will begin to 

produce. 

v v v 

Men work at foolish things because we ul- 
timate consumers pay them for it. 

v v v 

Three moves cost as much as a fire. Stay 
where you are. 

V V V 

Some day we will pay our teachers more 
and our brewers less. 



OTTS HOT SHOTS 



Some day we will plant more acres to corn 
and fewer to poppies and tobacco. China 

set the pace. 

y y y 

There is no profit in the time of idle men. 
Lord of nations, teach us how to avoid strikes. 

v y v 

Some day we will pay our preachers a liv- 
ing wage. 

V V V 

Some day no widows will be in want. 

V V M 

Some day the father of a big family will be 
paid not only for his work, but for supporting 
the workers of the future. 

V V V 

Some day the man who makes an auto can 
own one. 

V V V 

Some day men will be proud of their work 
and not of their wealth. 

v y v 

We have the wealth, resources and intelli- 
gence to eliminate poverty from this world. 
Where are the leaders? 

y y y 

Reformers, let us have team work. No more 
side issues, no more tariff debates; get to the 
point. 



WAR ON POVERTY 27 

It is Sunday. Take an auto ride; drive 
your wife and daughter past the homes of all 
the people who work in your factory. It will 
be a good sermon. 

V V V 

When 325,000 men were out of work in 
New York City, Tiffany still had customers. 
Jewels are not a necessity in the land where 
there is hunger. 

V V V 

Medals for the heroes. Give one for the 
boy who raises the best crop of corn or wheat. 

v v v 

Medals for the heroes. Give one to every 
man who helps to feed us. 

y v y 

Medals for the heroes. Give one to every 
engineer with his eye on the long iron trail. 

y y y 

Medals for the heroes. Don't overlook the 
conductors and brakemen and switchmen. 

y y y 

Medals for the heroes. Don't forget the 
men down there in the mines. They keep 
you warm. 

y y y 

Medals for the heroes. Give a large one to 
the section hand who keeps the track in order. 



28 OTTS HOT SHOTS 

Medals for the heroes. Give one to the or- 
ganizer of industry and a scourge to the 
loafer. 

V V V 

Medals for the heroes. When you are dis- 
tributing the medals to the inventors, give 
one to the inventor of new ideas. 



Medals for the heroes. Give a wooden cent 
to the peanut stand reformers who fuss over 
little things while an army is idle. 



Eat your meals this week in the restaurants 
of your employees. You will no longer won- 
der at their inefficiency. 



My dear brother, you made a big subscrip- 
tion for the church today; where did it come 
from? 

v v v 

Establishing endowments is a big responsi- 
bility. The future generation may want to 
do its own planning. 

V V V 

The man who endows an institution gives 
it nothing but the right to tax industry to the 
end of time. 



WAR ON POVERTY 29 

Plenty for each before extravagance for 
anyone, is the motto for today. 

V V V 

An endowment is an indirect tax imposed 
by individuals. The income is from going 
concerns. 



The reaper freed millions fro m the slavery 
of the sickle. Now who will invent an auto- 
tomatic store? 

V V V 

Note the number of conventions this year 
and count the cost. Are they a loss or a 
gain? Can't we do more business by mail? 



A man saved fifty years to keep up his 
insurance; then the cemetery association, the 
undertaker, the granite man, the livery man, 
and the florists got the money. 

v v v 

You are an employer of labor; do your em- 
ployees believe in God? Look for them in 
your church next Sunday. 

V V V 

Mr. Manufacturer, your factory is beauti- 
ful, your machinery is wonderful; now show 
me where your human machines live. I want 
to see all of your equipment. 



30 OTT'S HOT SHOTS 

I I Mil ■ ■Illllli ■ ■■^■.■— ..-■■■ . i ■ _■ i IB ■ WMM^tW^fcg 

When business men organize a cemetery at* 
sedation, a man who loves his family can't 
afford to die. 

V V V 

A widow's grief is about the easiest thing 
to capitalize. Go into the Mausoleum busi- 
ness; widows are easy* 

VMM 

Mr. Manufacturer, I congratulate you; your 
products go to bless millions of homes; you 
are a good' soldier. Go to it. 

V V V 

"Let him that would be greatest among 
you become the servant of the least." Sell 
to the millions at a lower profit. 

V V V 

Sister, your duty is to refuse every luxury 
until every employee of your husband has all 
of the necessities of decent living. 

v v M 

One case of Vice: Brothel, Disease, Wife, 
Hospital, Surgeon, Divorce, Alimony, $50,- 
000. Does it pay? 

V V V 

The price of drink is the loss of a job. 

y v v 

You can prevent a lot of poverty by pre- 
venting sickness. 



WAR ON POVERTY 31 

The cost of vice is paresis. 

V V V 

You can prevent a lot of sickness by living 

decently. 

v v v 

Some city was unclean and Wilbur Wright 
died of typhoid fever. What did the city 
council cost the world? 

V V V 

The store keeper who cannot pay decent 
wages is trying to run a store that is not 
needed in his community. 

v v v 

The brothel (ills the hospitals; the surgeon 
cashes in. "How long, O Lord, how long?" 

v v v 

Let every criminal pay the cost of his trial 
working on the roads. 

V V V 

If the criminal doesn't like the "straight 
and narrow way/' let him make a broad, 
smooth highway. Good roads. 

V V V 

Make vagrancy a special social crime. Or- 
ganize a vagrant squad for useful production. 
Crime would practically cease. 

V V v 

A wise spender maketh a glad husband. 



32 orrs HOT SHOTS 

An economical wife maketh a rich hus- 
band. 

V V V 

Have faith today that poverty can be over- 
come. What Henry Ford has done is a mere 
hint of the future. 

V V V 

About four per cent of our population are 
constantly sick. Would pure food and sani- 
tation pay? 

v v v 

Six weeks of typhoid fever will keep <* lab- 
oring in debt for a year. Flies. 

V V V 

"Safety First" is a good shot in the war on 
poverty. 

V V V 

Every sane man should help to lift the world 
above want. 

V V V 

The Y. M. C. A. is open seven days in the 
week. It gets support because it serves. 

V V V 

Get that phrase "The War on Poverty" in 
your heart. Enlist. It is the greatest fight 
in history. 

v v v 

I see "a new heaven and a new earth," — 
a land in which none shall want for the neces- 
sities of life. 



WAR 0<N POVERTY • 33 

In the War on Poverty a good mechanic is 
a better soldier than the average reformer. 

V V V 

The Parcel Post brought a little relief here 
and there. 

V V V 

Just plain ordinary ignorance is in the way 
of all reform. Think of Mexico. 



It costs much to raise children. If they die 
before the producing age, they spell a finan- 
cial loss. Conserve life. 

V V V 

Healthy, happy, growing, learning children 
are our greatest asset. 



On next Sunday think of the poverty that 
drunkenness, sin and vice cause; then work 
for righteousness in God's world. 



Concentrate attention on homes, schools, 
churches and human lives, not on finances, 
banks and dividends. 



Show me where your workers live. I know 
employers have good houses; they handled 
the money first* 



OTT'S HOT SHOTS 



Give each man in Mexico some land and 
war will cease. 

V V V 

The regional banks will stabilize credit in 
the United States; now establish regional res- 
ervoirs for surplus and supply of labor. 

V V V 

The hazards of unemployment should not 
be borne by the individual or one industry. 
It should be spread like a fire hazard. 

V V V 

It is wrong to breed more children than we 
can house, educate and make happy. 

V V V 

The cause of labor will never be won by 
strike committees that hold their meetings in 
saloons. 

V V V 

The father who earns $600 a year can't be 
a great waster. 

V V V 

The public schools in the United States in 
1910 cost only $427,918,465. That's econo- 
mical. 

V V V 

Life insurance premiums in the States cost 
in 1912 $623,343,089. 

V V V 

The tobacco consumption in the United 
States in one year amounts to $645,198,394. 



WAR ON POVERTY 35 

There were smoked in the United States 
in one year 7,355,199,103 cigars. 



Over eleven billion cigarettes were con- 
sumed in the United States in one year. 

v v v 

When the liquor traffic is destroyed, we 
will see what remains to be done. 

V V V 

The average yearly wage of 6,615,056 
workers was only $518 in 1910. 

V V V 

Italy uses 92 per cent of her geographical 
area for cultivation. 

V V V 

The United States uses but 25 per cent of 
her land for productive purposes. 

V V V 

The average wheat yield of the United 
States is 13.8 bushels per acre, 1910. Ger- 
many's was 28, Great Britain's 32.2 per acre. 

V V V 

The man who raises less than 200 bushels 
of potatoes per acre is a waster. 

V V V 

Most of the hospitals would be empty if 
we could stop drunkenness, vice and sin. 



3Q QTTS HOT SHOTS 

The farm products of the United States are 
worth about $9,000,000,000 per year. 

y y y 

It costs as much to sell farm products as 
to produce them—about $9,000,000,000. 

V V V 

How many times a day do you need to be 
brushed. Ask the millionaire who owns the 
hotel. 

V V V 

I once, offered a tip to a hotel proprietor. 
He felt insulted. Why? 

V V V 

We cannot eliminate poverty until you 
eliminate yours. 

V V V 

It isn't fair to expect society to do for you 
what you should do for yourself. Hustle! 

y y y 

Who is going to win "The War on Pover- 
ty?" You are — or we are whipped. 

V V V 

We need something more than Christian 
men. We need Christian banking, Christian 
merchandising, Christian feeding, and Chris- 
tian housing. 

v v v 

Old age pensions are a mighty human 
makeshift* 



WAR ON POVERTY 37 

You want to feel safe with an assured in- 
come. Then the folks who are paying that 
income are bearing your hazards. You are 

a good sport? 

v v v 

Pensions for the unemployed are a loss. 
Employing the unemployed is good business. 

v ^ v 

Farm the unused land with vagrants and 
cut the cost of living. 

V V V 

A congress made up of constructive indus- 
trial experts could start all the wheels of in- 
dustry within six weeks. The way to make 
the world rich is for all to be busy. Let the 
government employ the surplus and give pri- 
vate business a chance to breathe. 

v v v 

In war we execute the traitor. Stand up, 
you waster, here is a shot for your brain. 

V V V 

The money spent for ugly tombstones 

would make a fund to care for our memorial 

gardens forever. 

v v v 

Who is back of all the ugly memorial mon- 
uments? Is there a grief trust? 

V V V 

Why not spend memorial money signifi- 
cantly? 



& OTT'S HOT SHOTS 



o 



Lincoln's tomb should have been a Col- 
lege for Colored Boys. 

V V V 

The next exposition should erect perma- 
nent buildings for social service. 

V V V 

Spend your memorial money on something 
the departed loved; not on granite and livery 

rigs. 

v v v 

If great minds are selfish, what can you ex- 
pect from ignorant people? 

V V V 

Church architecture should set an example; 
it should express the "Inasmuch Doctrine/' 

v v v 

Coca Cola cannot save the world from pov- 
erty or sickness. "Keep the change." 

V V V 

Eating at home is cheaper than in a drug 

store. 

v v v 

You can't eat decorations; go to the cafe- 
teria. 

V V V 

Tip, tip, tip, tip, tip, tip, tip, tip, tip. "Keep 
the change," yourself. 

v v v 

The big advertisers are responsible for a lot 
of yellow journals. 



WAR ON POVERTY 39 

A newsboy deposited seven hundred dol- 
lars worth of pennies in a bank. The Presi- 
dent speculated and the boy lost his money. 
Is Wall Street a Christian institution? 

V V V 

When strikers and soldiers clash, two arm- 
ies are unproductive. 



When men strike, the Consumer pays. 
Stop it. 

v v v 

In twenty years half the store buildings 
will be idle or used for other purposes. . Stop 
building or you lose your money. 

V V V 

The highest priced dog in the world is the 
Victor pup. "Listening to his Master's 



voice. 



V V V 



The consumer pays more for trade marks 
than for breakfast food. "There is a reason." 

v y v 

You can buy a bushel of cracked wheat for 
a dollar. Bedeviled, becartoned, betrade- 
marked, it costs seven dollars. 

V V V 

"Uneeda" hunch; buy in bulk, not by the 
bulletin board. 



40 OTTS HOT SHOTS 

The inventor has freed woman from the 
hand loom and the needle, from the broom 
and hand washing, and hand ironing. She 
will have to free herself from bankrupting 
vanity. 

V V V 

Kindling wood is expensive if you buy it 
with the select apples. Buy your fruit and 
kindling wood separately. 

V V V 

Cartons and ribbons cost more than the 
chocolates; why not eat the box? 

v v v 

Sell me a shaving stick without the box. 
My supply of boxes is ample and needs no 
"improving." 

V V V 

The most expensive luxury for the con- 
sumer is the trademark. 

V V V 

The world creates a huge mountain of 
things each year. The good citizen throws 
on as much as he takes off. 

V V V 

It woiild pay the state to hire doctors to 
teach heatlh habits. Brains at any price are 
cheaper than drugs. 



WAR ON POVERTY 41 



len the U. S. Congress spends ten bil- 
lion dollars a year wisely, we will have pros- 
perity. 

V V V 

Small factories cannot produce economi- 
cally; big enterprises are cheaper. 

V V V 

The per capita cost of the Panama Canal 
is very little. The tobacco bill would pay for 
the Canal in one year. 

v v v 

Our best educated men are needed in use- 
ful industry. How many are useful now? 

V V V 

Taxes are our economical expenditures. 
Each gets the benefit of all that is spent. 

v v v 

You can't own much of a park individual- 
ly, but through your taxes you can own a 
beautiful one. 

V V V 

To plant financial hope in the laborer's 
heart is one step toward efficiency. 

V V V 

A thousand families can have a good 
school by pooling their taxes. That is team 
work. 



42 OTTS HOT SHOTS 

It is not economical for each man to work 
alone. 

V V V 

The last slavery is the slavery of usury. 
Sickness and death do not interfere with in- 
terest. 

V V V 

Don't get confused with abstract argu- 
ments. Think in terms of service and things. 

V V V 

Most of all we need social machinery to 
meet the social waste of incomplete organi- 
zation. 

v v v 

All governments should establish a labor 
stabilizer to take up slack and provide the 
emergency supply of men. 

V V V 

We pay for much we do not want to get 
what we do want. Study distribution for a 
year and then enlist in the War on Poverty. 

V V V 

It is more important to keep labor busy 
than to stabilize credit. 

V V V 

When men are earning they are spending 
and trade itself establishes and stabilizes 
credit. 



WAR ON POVERTY 43 

A man drew dividends and bought his sis- 
ter a French count; then he tried to sell rail- 
road bonds to the public. Why didn't he buy 
the bonds? 

V V V 

It is not wise for a successful soap factory 
to endow a mendicant charity. 

v v/ v 

We can't afford to let any real scientist or 
inventor waste time looking for equipment 
or money. 

v v v 

Real social servants should be rewarded 
while alive for efficiency's sake. 

V V V 

The ultimate consumer pays all wages, div- 
idends, and losses. Who represents him dur- 
ing a strike? 

v v v 

The pirates also sailed ships, looked like 
sailors and carried cargoes. They looked 
normal. 

V V V 

It is still easy to sell blue sky. Invest your 
money sanely. 

V V V 

The hand that holds the family purse is 
the hand that rules the world. 



44 OTTS HOT SHOTS 

Women should understand economics if 
men do not. 

v v v 

Every time a man is compelled to tip a 
Pullman porter, another vote for government 
ownership is made. 

v v v 

Mr. R. R. President: If you) use enough 
water you will float your road into the gov- 
ernment harbor. 

v v v 

An employer said, "There are two sides to 
every strike question." Yes, and one more 
— the consumer's." 

V V V 

When Mexico becomes civilized enough to 
stop fighting, it will hurt the Krupps in Ger- 
many. Too bad to spoil good business. 

V V V 

You bought a diamond in Chicago and 
paid a black boy's wages in Africa. Trade 
influences are international. 

y v v 

If you stop buying jewels, the boys in the 
Kimberlee mines will go to farming. 

V V V 

Mr. Edison, the world salutes you. You 
are our servant. 



WAR ON POVERTY 45 

Adolphus Busch went to his last resting 
place under $100,000 worth of flowers. Did 
the drunkards' widows pay for them? 

v v v 

The soldier in the War on Poverty must 
dramatize on a world's stage; the pearl diver 
in the Indian ocean is working for Tiffany. 

V V V 

My Dear Lady: Your necklace is beauti- 
ful; the boy who dived for the pearls was 
once a useful sailor. 

V V V 

No business that requires secrecy on costs 
and profits is Christian. 

V V V 

Oh, you pay for your luxury, forgive me. 
I did not know that you were a producer. 

v y v 

Even under a high protective tariff, a fire 
would be a loss and a debauch wasteful. 

V V V 

Legislative schemes can't bring a victory in 
the War on Poverty, but sanity and right- 
eousness can. 

V V V 

Christian mathematition asks: If a plumber 
gets $6.00 per day, what is he willing to pay 
the cobbler per day? 



46 OTTS HO T SHOTS 

If a carpenter earns $5.00 per day, what 
should Jim's teacher get? 

V V V 

If a distiller saves $3,000,000 in a lifetime, 
how much should he pay for his funera* 



sermon? 



V V V 



Keep your self-respect, accept nothing 
without giving full equivalent for service. 

v y v 

Even Christian people invest in fine archi- 
tecture before they build cottages for the 
poof. 

y v v 

The glory of a state is not in its $12,000,- 
000 capitols, but in its cottages. 

y y y 

Even under socialism, a nation could 
drink itself into poverty. 

y y y 

In our complicated society, a man may rob 
the poor and not know it. 

y y y 

Henry George is well known in Canada 
and England. In the United States his "mes- 
sage for men" goes up in smoke. 



WAR ON POVERTY 47 

A man may do long distance stealing in 
modern society and so rob people he has 
never seen. 

V V V 

A poor crop in Iowa may close a mill in 
Massachusetts. We are one people. 

V V V 

Behold the "Good Fellow;" "Keep the 
change." How does he get it? 

y v v 

The sport is a "good fellow" but he never 
planted a white rose on his mother's grave. 

v v v 

The gold of the world is hoarded in huge 
piles of sacks in steel vaults. What good does 
it do to mine it? 

v v v 

Don't forget, brother, that ignorant men 
would spoil good land even if it were free. 

v v v 

You have discovered the greatest gold 
mine in the world. Forget it and go to work. 

V V V 

If you take 1,000 men from productive la- 
bor and open a new gold mine, you make the 
world poorer, not richer. 



4 8 OTT'S HOT SHOTS 

We need gold back of our paper. No, not 
now; we will use commercial paper for se- 
curity in the future. 

V V V 

The wealth of the nation will be back of 
the new currency when the new regional 
banks are in operation. 

v v v 

It looks now as if we would have a scien- 
tific money some day. 

v v v 

If you want prosperity, force the vacant 
land onto the market and into use. The un- 
used land should be taxed twice as high as 
the productive farm. 

v v v 

On next Sunday pray not to become a good 
man individually, but to be a good social 
citizen. 

V V V 

The earth and the fullness thereof do not 
belong to the gambler. The Single Taxers 
are thinkers at any rate. 

V V V 

Think, work, love, hope, pass the word 
along. 

v v v 

The man with the greatest intelligence 
should act as the social example. 




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